Your ebook already knows where its chapters are. Audionarrator keeps them, hides the front matter, and reads you the book.
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Chapter 4 of 24
Chapter 7 of 12
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Chapter 3 of 20
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Book · 24 chapters
18 in playback · 6 hidden as front matter
Chapters
How it works
Drop in any DRM-free EPUB, up to 50 MB. Exports from Calibre, Kobo purchases, Project Gutenberg downloads, and your own manuscripts all work.
EPUB files already describe their structure. Audionarrator keeps it, builds your chapter list from it, and hides front matter like the title page and dedication from playback.
Play in the browser on any device with your position synced, or download each chapter as MP3 for any podcast or music app.
An EPUB is not a wall of text. It carries a spine: a machine-readable map of every chapter, in order, with the title page and copyright notice marked as what they are. Generic converters ignore all of it, narrate the whole file front to back, and hand you eleven hours of audio with no way in.
Audionarrator reads the map first. What the author shaped as chapters arrives in your library as chapters.
The chapter list in your library mirrors the book's own table of contents, not arbitrary time slices.
Title page, dedication, copyright block: classified and hidden from playback by default.
Resume mid-sentence across devices, jump chapters from the lock screen, listen at 0.75x to 2x.
Every converted book sits on one shelf with cover, progress, and per-chapter state.
What cannot convert. DRM-protected files, which includes most Kindle books and Adobe DRM ebooks, are locked by the store that sold them. No honest converter can read them, and we would rather say so here than after you sign up.
What converts well. DRM-free EPUBs: Project Gutenberg’s sixty thousand classics, Kobo and Smashwords DRM-free purchases, Calibre libraries, indie ebooks, and manuscripts of your own.
Questions
The questions people actually ask before uploading an ebook.
Yes, and this is the point. An EPUB already knows where its chapters begin and end. Instead of flattening the book into one long audio file, Audionarrator keeps that structure: you get a chapter list, per-chapter progress, and the ability to jump straight to chapter 12.
No, and any tool that says otherwise is being vague with you. DRM-protected files (most Kindle and Adobe DRM ebooks) are locked by the store that sold them and cannot be converted. DRM-free EPUBs work: Project Gutenberg classics, Kobo and Smashwords DRM-free purchases, Calibre libraries, and manuscripts you wrote yourself.
Your first chapter is free regardless of length, up to 15,000 words, and every account starts with 5,000 free words plus a monthly refill. No card required. For a typical novel that means hearing a full chapter before deciding anything.
Chapter detection takes about a minute. Audio then generates chapter by chapter, a few minutes each, and you can start listening to chapter one while the rest of the book generates behind it.
Yes. Every chapter downloads as its own MP3, named so the folder sorts in reading order. They play in any music or podcast app, offline, on any device.
Yes, in the browser with nothing to install. Audio keeps playing with the screen locked, lock-screen controls work, and chapters auto-advance, so a novel plays through a commute like a real audiobook app.
Same treatment, same account. PDFs get chapter detection from their structure, DOCX uploads work the same way, and you can paste plain text directly.
Upload a DRM-free EPUB you already own. The first chapter is free, even the long ones. No card required.